Diabetic recipes

Kelly, I subscribe to Diabetes Forecast, it comes with your membership to ADA. There are always a few good recipes in that monthly mag. I have learned in the past, almost 27 yrs (dx at 17) how to eat and how I metabolize certain foods. I really stay away from white starches as they spike the BG (blood glucose) rapidly and high fat meals take way longer to metabolize and break down into sugar. Now, with my insulin pump, I can eat certain foods, by spreading out the insulin dose over a longer period.
For someone not on insulin, small portions of carbs is mandatory for good control.
Tonight for dinner, I am having organic shrimp with whole wheat angel hair,sauteed in olive oil, garlic, anchovy paste and a lil butter and crushed red pepper. We can really eat whatever...even occasional cake or cookie, but cut the carbs from somewhere else. Sometimes, OK often, I have wine and no bread or other high carbs.
Diabetes is very do-able! Wish your new guy my best and let me know if you have questions. My Godmother and aunt is diabetic and my cousins always call with questions, they call it "phoning a friend" lol

Christine, I just pm'd you.
Amera

Christine, I always tell people that it's the dirty little secret about diabetes (especially on a pump) that if they can carb count and they're not too insulin resistant they can eat whatever they want and keep their glycemic control - but they will gain weight!

For my type 2s on orals (and pre-diabetes) my two "rules" are: no carbs by themselves and not a lot of carbs at one time. The whole grains are important because they're more nutritious but they will raise BG almost as far and almost as fast as white grains. The trick is not too much.

Tell your BF not to be too afraid of insulin. The push is to get people on insulin sooner than later now since we know that it helps to prolong the pancreas' ability to put out insulin itself (in type 2 that is). There are some new medicines (oral) that seem to do that too tho so, as always in diabetes, things are changing.

This thread is interesting since my PCP just told me I should start following a diabetic diet even though I'm not diagnosed as diabetic. I do have several family members who went type II about my age (late 40's).